With two days of the qualifying heats for the 1999 "World's Strongest Man" TV show completed, cumulative scores in each group are already starting to sort out the competitors. Top scores within each group are as follows.

Group 1: Samuelsson, 16; Barr, 15; Onasai, 13; Philippi, 10. Group 2: Ahola, 17; Minkwitz, 16; Veoga, 12. Group 3: Virtanen, 18; Karlsen, 12; Badenhorst, 10; Pannanen, 10. Group 4: Girard, 17; Olafsson, 14; Vagadal, 12; Brown, 10. Group 5: Veneberg, 15; Baskin, 13; Fekete, 12; Bergmanis, 10.